Saxon Documentation

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About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Conditions of Use

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

fn:QName

fn:QName( string $paramURI, string $paramLocal) → QName

Function signature

$paramURI	xs:string
$paramLocal	xs:string
Result	xs:QName

Constructs a QName value from a URI and local name. The second argument may be a lexical QName, and the prefix of the lexical QName is returned in the constructed value, for use if it is converted back to a string.

XPath 2.0 Specification